Interesting perspective, you may think to yourself, if you read this noted psychiatrist‘s review of a book about the science related to excrement: The book: From Food to Fertilizer, the Role of Excrement in the Life Cycle, Charles C. Dahlberg, Young Scott Books, Reading, Massachusetts, 1973. The review: “Not So Execrable,” Richard A. Gardner, Contemporary Psychoanalysis […]
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Trussed by too-easily trusting data?
Jean-Claude Bradley writes in the Useful Chemistry blog: I’m not sure what my students expected before taking my Chemical Information Retrieval class this fall. My guess is that most just wanted to learn how to use databases to quickly find “facts”. From what I can gather much of their education has consisted of teachers giving […]
On realizing you’re wrong: Buzz about bees
Scicurious wrote a nice essay, a while back, about realizing you’ve been wrong: So I posted something the other day on bees and cell phones. The science in the paper itself wasn’t convincing to me, but the other references they pulled out in the discussion made me pull an about face. I thought, hey, maybe the […]
Reproduction: Some parts are optional
Lisa Hix, in Collectors Weekly, muses about old science toys for children (HT Mo Costandi). Among them are a romantic-only-in-a-vaguely-scientific way: Visible Man and Woman made quite a pair. Visible Man, like his less transparent brethren, the Ken doll, lacked external genitalia. Visible Woman, on the other hand, was quite sexy on the Renwal box, with […]